Kesivan Naidoo Big Band Experience South Africa Tour

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The Kesivan Naidoo Big Band Experience, Grand South African Tour 2023

"Kesivan Naidoo is unarguably the most eminent South African drummer of his generation. Say, what? Well, this is a cat who honed his sure-fire feel for sonic spectacle with a roll call of SA jazz masters, from the iconic Miriam Makeba, pianists Hotep Galeta and Bheki Mseleku to saxophonist Winston Mankunku, to drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo and beyond. It is his reverential feel for history, space and place that Naidoo channelled in his seminal 2014 album, Brotherhood. At a sold-out Carnegie Hall premiere, no less. Dig it? Fast forward to 2023 and the Basel-based Naidoo is reimagining Brotherhood as a Big Band experience. Celebrated trombonist Adrian Mears breathes beatific big band arrangements into modal Afro-Indo modulations, shadowy cinematic improvisations and more." (Miles Keylock, former editor of Rolling Stone Magazine) 

In June and July 2023, Kesivan Naidoo is swinging back from Switzerland to South Africa for four concerts with his Big Band Experience. 

The Grand Tour kicks off with headline performances at the National Arts Festival in Makhanda, followed by exclusive concerts at the Star Theatre (previously The Fugard) in Cape Town, and the Market Theatre in Johannesburg.

Naidoo* is joined by a killer ensemble cast including Adrian Mears (conductor, arranger), Kyle Shepherd* (piano), Rheza Khota (guitar), Benjamin Jeptha* (bass), Charley Wagner, Darren English, Sakhile Simane and Lee Thomson (trumpets), Julia Reuffert, Siya Makuzeni*, Andreas Tschoppe and Maxine Troglauer (trombones), Justin Bellairs and Tara Sarter (alto sax), Sisonke Xonti* and Marc Stucki (tenor sax), and Danni McKinnon (baritone sax).

* Standard Bank Young Artists of the Year